Saints fined $30,000 for hits.

This may be more of a whine than a rant but....

I understand that football is a contact sport. That's one of the things I like about it. What the Saints did was not just make contact, but did it outside the rules of the NFL. BTW, fines against the Vikings $0.00.

So I'm still not fully over the loss....Read on.

New Orleans defensive end Bobby McCray has been fined $20,000 for two hits on Vikings quarterback Brett Favre on Sunday in the Saints' victory in the NFC title game, according to Jason La Canfora of NFL.com. The NFL has confirmed the fines to McCray.

McCray was fined both for a first-quarter hit on Favre that was delivered after the quarterback had handed off to Percy Harvin and for the third quarter low hit on which Favre threw an interception and also injured his left ankle.

No penalty was called on that play but Mike Pereira, the NFL's vice president of officiating, said that referee Pete Morelli's crew should have thrown a flag. McCray did receive a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness after his first hit.

Update: The Saints had at least two other fines in the game. Defensive end Anthony Hargrove was fined $5,000 for unnecessary roughness in the third quarter when he lifted Favre off the ground and drove him to the turf as he threw an incomplete pass to Chester Taylor. Hargrove was called for a 15-yard roughing the passer penalty.

New Orleans' Jonathan Casillas was fined $5,000 for unnecessary roughness for striking punt returner Darius Reynaud late as he downed the football in the second quarter. Casillas was called for a 15-yard penalty on the play.

Story by the Star and Tribune newspaper.

Which came first..

Which came first the chicken or the egg?

A few friends were arguing about this statement and I had to jump in and put my 2 cents in, or off them both.

The phrase ” Which came first the chicken or the egg?” is not a puzzle to be solved, or some sort of temporal paradox that scientist are attempting to grapple with. It’s meant to describe an unsolvable situation. Like “Catch 22”, that sort of thing.

If it were a puzzle, it would be very easy to solve. If the phrase is as stated, “Which came first the chicken or the egg?”, then the solution is the egg. There were dinosaurs laying eggs long before chickens ever evolved.

If the phrase is really a shorter version of “Which came first the chicken or the chicken egg?” Then it’s just as easy to solve. A type of egg is referred to by what laid it, not what’s in it. If a chicken laid an egg with a disfigured chicken in it, it’s still a chicken egg. If a chicken laid an egg with a turtle in it, it would still be a chicken egg.

At some point in history, a bird that was not quite a chicken, laid an egg with a mutated offspring inside. That offspring is what we consider today to be a chicken. The egg would have been referred to by what laid it. But, a chicken hatched out of it. So the chicken came first.

These are the odds, Part 1

The odds are 1 in 582 (.0017%) that you will be injured in a traffic accident due to "driver distraction". - The Week Magazine, 10/16/09

If you're an American, the odds are 1 in 40 (2.46%) that you're currently in the U.S. criminal justice system (incarcerated, on parole, or on probation). - The Week Magazine, 9/25/09

The odds are 1 out of 39 (2.56%) that you will hit a deer with your car this year, if you drive in West Virginia. - The Week Magazine, 10/9/09

The odds are 1 out of 33 (3%) that you have been a target of sexual advances by a priest, minister, rabbi or other religious leader (if you're a woman). - The Week Magazine, 9/25/09

The odds are 1 out of 71 (1.4%) that your bag arrived at your destination at a different time than you did when flying commercial airlines. - The Week Magazine, 8/28/09

The odds are 1 out of 10 (10%) that you are allergic to dust mites. There can be 19,000 dust mites in one gram of household dust. - Discover Magazine, 7/09

The odds are 1 out of 6 (16%) that you suffer from an allergy-related ailment. - Discover Magazine, 7/09

The odds are 1 out of 25 (4%) that you have symptoms that warrant an ADHD diagnosis if you're between ages 18 and 44. - Time Magazine, 6/22/09

The odds are 1 out of 2 (44%) that a Mississippi child is overweight or obese. - Time Magazine, 7/13/09

The odds are 1 out of 230,000,000 (.000000435%) that you're allergic to water. - The Week Magazine, 5/1/09

The odds are 1 out of 7 (15%) that a U.S. teenager expects to die young. - Time Magazine, 7/13/09

The odds are 54 out of 100 (54%) that you will look for a new job after this recession ends. - Newsweek Magazine, 7/13/09

The odds are less than 1 out of 5 (20%) that you're obese if you live in Colorado. This is the only state with less than 20% obesity rate. - The Week Magazine, 7/24/09

No Respect, Part 2

Rodney Dangerfield,

My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror. And I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I bought a waterbed and found a guy at the bottom of it.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. In the local restaurant I sat down and had broken leg of lamb.

My wife had her drivers test the other day. She got 8 out of 10. The other 2 guys jumped clear.

I asked him, "Who said you could fool around with my wife?" He said, "Everybody."

I went to see my doctor. "Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror... I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me?" He said, "I don't know but your eyesight is perfect."

I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.

My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog's bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.

I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

I'm so ugly... I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get.

What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself.

One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh!

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

True Facts, Part 1

Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.

Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner.

They have square watermelons in Japan - they stack better.

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Armadillos can be housebroken.

The first Fords had engines made by Dodge.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.

The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.